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| Lin Yutang (1895-1976) Chinese writer whose original works and translations of classic Chinese texts became very popular in the West. Lin Yutang was born in southeastern China and his father was a Christian minister. Lin studied at St John's University in Shanghai and later at Harvard. He moved to France and Germany, and got a dregree at Leipzig University; In the beginning of the Twenties he taught English literature at Beijing University. LinYutang was very active in the popularization of classical Chinese literature in the West; he worked to a new method ofromanizing the Chinese, and created an indexing system for Chinese characters. After 1928 he lived mainly in the United States, where his translations of Chinese texts remained popular for many years. His many works represent an attempt to bridge the cultural gap between the East and the West. He was frequently nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. His first two books, My Country and My People (1935) and The Importance of Living (1937), written in English in a witty style, brought him international fame. Others include Between Tears and Laughter (1943), The Chinese Theory of Art (1967), and the novels Moment in Peking (1939) and The Vermillion Gate (1953), Chinese-English Dictionary of Modern Usage (1973). He was buried at his home, in Yangmingshan, Taipei, Taiwan, now turned into a museum. |
| 只有在相當數量的人文雅地說謊的基礎上，以及沒人精確說出他的想法的情況下，社會才可能存在。--Lin Yutang |
| 智慧是把不需要的去掉 |
| 社會只存在於文雅的謊言的特定基礎上， 以及沒有人說出他們真正想法的情況下 |